Ben Mims: The Soul of a Cookie
Food with Mark Bittman
Sweetness and Light
4.9 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The food writer and cookbook author – most recently of Crumbs: Cookies and Sweets from Around the World – talks to Mark and Kate about COOKIES. Do we take them for granted? What constitutes a cookie? Plus, the most interesting things Ben learned in his research, how cookies have evolved to suit the changing times, his favorite cookie recipes for the holidays, and what it was like to test and taste 300 cookie recipes.
The Bittman Project is featuring two recipes from Crumbs:
Brown Sugar Cinnamon Cookies (Speculoos)
https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/brown-sugar-cinnamon-cookies-speculoos/
Egyptian Stuffed Eid Cookies:
https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/egyptian-stuffed-eid-cookies/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, welcome back to food. I'm Kate Bittman. If you haven't taken part in our very |
| 0:08.3 | quick audience survey and you wouldn't mind doing so, you'll find the link in today's show notes. |
| 0:13.9 | Thank you. And you know where to find us with your thoughts, feedback, questions. That's |
| 0:19.2 | food at markbitman.com. We're also online at bitman |
| 0:22.6 | project.com. Of note from the last week, food writer Alicia Kennedy wonders, if the top-heavy |
| 0:29.5 | ultra-consolidated food industry decides to offer us a few organic options, is that really a good |
| 0:35.6 | thing? And Andrew Galarno gives a great primer on local |
| 0:39.3 | meat. The best ways to buy it, why it's so great to buy it, and how to cook cuts you're not familiar with. |
| 0:45.3 | Bitmanproject.com. It was the night before Christmas went all through the kitchen. |
| 1:04.3 | Guests were happily sipping the drinks that I'd mix them. |
| 1:07.8 | With a selection of tonics from fever tree, everyone was given their favourite G&T. |
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